Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.
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The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.
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The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly “progressive” policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas.
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What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
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As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.
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If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their life with a sense of entitlement that undermine peace , freedom and liberty.
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He who serves the public best, makes the highest profits.
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The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
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The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.
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The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.
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The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
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None can stand aside with unconcern; the interest of everyone hangs on the result. Whether he chooses or not, every man is drawn into the great historical struggle, the decisive battle into which our epoch has plunged us.
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The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.
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